Wisdom

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Wisdom (Greek: σοφία sophia; Latin: sapientia; Hebrew: חכמה Chochmah) as human ability is based on a deeper insight into wide-ranging contexts of life drawn from experience, comprehensive knowledge, intuition, rationality and well-founded faith. It first arose as objective astral wisdom or cosmic intelligence on the Old Moon, which is therefore rightly called the Cosmos of Wisdom. Wisdom emerged from truth, which was already predisposed on the Old Sun as a force working in the etheric. Today it forms the Buddhi of the Earth, which underlies the whole development of the Earth. In the Kabbalah, wisdom (Hebrew: חכמה Chochmah) is the second Sephira on the Tree of Life of the Kabbalah and at the same time the uppermost of its right pillar Jachin. A person to whom a part of this wisdom is accessible is commonly called a sage.

The Proverbs of Solomon

In the Proverbs of Solomon, wisdom characterises itself thus:

„22 “The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old. 23 Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth. 24 When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. 25 Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth, 26 before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world. 27 When he established the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, 28 when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep, 29 when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, 30 then I was beside him, like a master workman, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always, 31 rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the children of man. 32 “And now, O sons, listen to me: blessed are those who keep my ways. 33 Hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it. 34 Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors. 35 For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord, 36 but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death.”“

– ESV

The Origin of Wisdom on the Old Sun

The evolution of the Old Sun was under the guidance of the Spirits of Wisdom.

„What lives in the truth, which purifies itself into wisdom, actually already has its first beginning during the evolution of the Sun, then has its climax in a certain way in the evolution of the Moon, continues to live in the evolution of the Earth, and will essentially already be completed in what we know as the evolution of Jupiter. There the human being will have attained a certain full completion with regard to the content of wisdom.170“ (Lit.:GA 74)

Today this objective wisdom meets us everywhere in earthly nature, in the wise construction of the thigh bone as well as in the construction of the wasp's nest, to name but two examples.

The subjective inner wisdom, the individual intelligence, only entered into earthly development with the human I. It is described by Plato as one of the most important forms of wisdom. It is named by Plato as one of the four cardinal virtues of man.

Wisdom and Spirits of Form

„Everywhere in our environment we find everything filled and impregnated with wisdom, with that with which we ourselves will be impregnated when we have fully developed manas. This wisdom that we find everywhere is something that belongs to the members of the Spirits of Form. As our lowest member is the physical body, so the wisdom we find around us is the lowest member of the Spirits of Form. Then these Spirits of Form have Buddhi, Atman, where we have our etheric body and astral body, and then the eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh members. So you see, we are dealing here with highly exalted beings to whom we look up, and when we see wisdom in our surroundings, we see only the last member of these highly exalted beings.“ (Lit.:GA 102, p. 79f)

Literatur
References to the work of Rudolf Steiner follow Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works (CW or GA), Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach/Switzerland, unless otherwise stated.
Email: verlag@steinerverlag.com URL: www.steinerverlag.com.
Index to the Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner - Aelzina Books
A complete list by Volume Number and a full list of known English translations you may also find at Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works
Rudolf Steiner Archive - The largest online collection of Rudolf Steiner's books, lectures and articles in English.
Rudolf Steiner Audio - Recorded and Read by Dale Brunsvold
steinerbooks.org - Anthroposophic Press Inc. (USA)
Rudolf Steiner Handbook - Christian Karl's proven standard work for orientation in Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works for free download as PDF.
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